The relation of the potential vitamin d deficiency with pregnant women in trimester

Iraqis, particularly pregnant women, suffer from vitamin D deficiency. There are no exact statistics about it in Iraq. The study's main goal was to find out how common vitamin D deficiency was among pregnant women getting prenatal care and giving birth at Fallujah General Hospital in Anbar, Iraq. The purpose of this thesis was to look at vitamin D, calcium, hemoglobin, iron, and serum ferritin levels in pregnant women. The volunteers were divided into two groups: 50 patients and 50 controls, note that the two groups of patients and healthy people are the same people, but the healthy group was taken in the first week of pregnancy and we conducted tests for them, and the group of patients in the third trimester of pregnancy we conducted tests for them. In the patients group, blood vitamin D levels were (14.70 ± 6.164 ng/mL), they had hypovitaminosis D (less than 30 ng/mL; P=0.016), they had low calcium (8.192 ± 0.30 mg/dL; P=0.49), they had low Iron (31.59 ± 7.85 µg/dL; P=0.001), they had low hemoglobin (10.28 ± 0.73 g/dL; P=0.34) and they had low ferritin (38.35 ± 17.28 ng/dL; P=0.71) as compared to control group. This research recommends that all pregnant women take a vitamin D supplement, as well as calcium and iron supplements, especially in the third trimester.